Wednesday, April the 30th, 2025, 2.00 pm Central European Time

The Special Interest Group of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, in collaboration with the Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris, will organize a new Online Meeting on the application of Art in Psychiatry with three excellent speakers

2.00 pm Short introduction

2.05 pm Tom Theeuwen; Curator Museum of the Mind, Haarlem and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, https://museumvandegeest.nl/english-information/

 The application of Visual Art in the history of mental health. Excerpts from the exhibition ‘Animal Therapy’ in Amsterdam.

2.25 pm Short discussion

2.30 pm  Dr Jaswant Guzder; Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry; Co-Director UBC Social and Psychiatry Program; Professor(ret), McGill University, Division of Child Psychiatry & Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry

 Engagement with creative arts and  mental health : two  legacies from Jamaica and Brazil

 2.55 pm Short discussion

3.00 pm Anne-Marie Dubois;  Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Scientific Director of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de l’Hôpital Sainte-Anne (MAHHSA).

Subject to be announced

 3.25 pm Short discussion

 Participation to the online meeting is free. Please send your name to Hans Rohlof, hrohlof@gmail.com to register. After registering, you will receive a participation link. The meeting will be recorded.

Organizers:

Itsuo Asai, Japan; Alberto Velasco, France; Hans Rohlof, the Netherlands.